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    7 Open-Source Serverless Frameworks Providing Functions as a Service

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    Sean Michael Kerner
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    January 12, 2018
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      17 Open-Source Serverless Frameworks Providing Functions as a Service

      7 Open-Source Serverless Frameworks Providing Functions as a Service

      With virtualization, organizations began to realize greater utilization from physical hardware. That trend continued with the cloud, as organizations began to get their virtual machines in a pay-as-you-go service. Cloud computing further evolved when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its Lambda service in 2014, introducing a new paradigm for cloud computing that has now become commonly referred to as serverless computing. In the serverless model, organizations pay for functions as a service, without the need to pay for an always-on, stateful virtual machine. While AWS Lambda pioneered serverless computing, there are now multiple open-source projects building serverless frameworks that can be used in multicloud deployments. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at seven open-source serverless frameworks.

      2Apache OpenWhisk

      Apache OpenWhisk

      IBM started the Apache OpenWhisk project, and it now serves as the basis of IBM’s Cloud Functions service.

      3Fission Uses Kubernetes for Serverless

      Fission Uses Kubernetes for Serverless

      The open-source Fission project, led by cloud services vendor Platform9, is a Kubernetes-based framework for serverless capabilities. “Fission is an open-source project that is designed to be the de facto open-source alternative to Lambda,” Madhura Maskasky, co-founder of Platform9, told eWEEK in a January 2017 interview.

      4IronFunctions

      IronFunctions

      IronFunctions is a functions-as-a-service platform written in the Go programming language. Functions is an open-source serverless computing platform for any cloud: private, public or hybrid.

      5Fn Project Backed by Oracle

      Fn Project Backed by Oracle

      The open-source Fn project was announced by Oracle in October 2017 as an Apache-licensed serverless effort.

      6OpenFaaS

      OpenFaaS

      OpenFaaS is an open-source effort that makes use of either Docker or Kubernetes to enable a serverless, functions-as-a-service framework.

      7Kubeless

      Kubeless

      The Kubeless open-source serverless framework was developed by software vendor Skippbox, which Bitnami acquired in March 2017. Kubeless is a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that has a command line interface (CLI) that is compliant with the AWS Lambda CLI.

      8Riff

      Riff

      Among the newest open-source serverless frameworks is the Riff project, which is backed by Pivotal and is the basis for the upcoming Pivotal Function Service (PFS).

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